SWIFT

SWIFT BICs API

BIC (Bank Identifier Code) lookup and validation

GitHub OpenAPI
Business capability
Payments & Card Management BC-1340

Operations 13

GET /v2/bics/{bic} Get BIC Details #
GET /v2/bics/{bic}/validity Validate BIC #
GET /v2/bics/{bic}/lei Get LEI for BIC #
GET /v2/bics/{bic}/national_ids Get National IDs for BIC #
GET /v2/bics/{bic}/reachability Validate SEPA Reachability #
GET /v2/bics/{bic}/ssis Get SSIs for BIC #
GET /bics/{bic} Get details of a BIC #
GET /bics/{bic}/validity Check validity of a BIC #
GET /bics/{bic}/lei Get the LEI for a BIC #
GET /bics/{bic}/national_ids Get National IDs for a BIC #
GET /bics/{bic}/reachability Validate SEPA reachability of a BIC #
GET /bics/{bic}/ssis Get SSIs for a BIC #
GET /bics/{bic}/connected_bic Get connected BIC #

Documentation

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Documentation
https://developer.swift.com/apis/swiftref-api

Specifications

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OpenAPI
https://artifacts.apis.io/swift/openapi/swift-bics-api-openapi.yml

Schemas & Data

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JSONSchema
https://artifacts.apis.io/swift/json-schema/swift-bic-details-schema.json
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JSONSchema
https://artifacts.apis.io/swift/json-schema/swift-reachability-result-schema.json
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JSONSchema
https://artifacts.apis.io/swift/json-schema/swift-validity-result-schema.json
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JSONSchema
https://artifacts.apis.io/swift/json-schema/swift-national-id-schema.json

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OpenAPI Specification

swift-bics-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Swift BICs API
  version: '1.0'
  description: 'Operations tagged BICs across 3 of this provider''s published API definitions: swift-swiftref-api-openapi.yml, swift-swiftref-api-v4-openapi.yml, swift-swiftref-api-v4-openapi.yml. Each path carries the servers of the definition it was published in.'
servers:
- url: https://api.swift.com/swiftrefdata
  description: SWIFT SwiftRef Production API
- url: https://sandbox.swift.com/swiftrefdata
  description: SWIFT SwiftRef Sandbox
- url: https://api.swift.com/swiftrefdata/v4
  description: Live environment
- url: https://sandbox.swift.com/swiftrefdata/v4
  description: Sandbox environment
- url: https://api-test.swift.com/swiftrefdata/v4
  description: Test environment
tags:


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# Full source: https://artifacts.apis.io/swift/openapi/swift-bics-api-openapi.yml